Nicolas

“Sonder - n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.”
― John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

“We didn't realize we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“Like a dog!" he said, it was as if the shame of it should outlive him.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“Last year nothing happened
The year before nothing happened
And the year before that nothing
happened.”
― Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun